deltaromeo - Slashdot User

Comment Bolt is better than Uber - try them for free! (Score -1, Offtopic) 85

by deltaromeo on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:31PM (#59066162) Attached to: Uber Posts $5.2 Billion Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate

I use Bolt and find them better than Uber.

In the UK they have a growing number of drivers and they are currently offering incentives to both drivers and passengers to start using their service.

Feel free to use my invite code HYGW5L and get a free Bolt trip up to £10. Redeem it at https://invite.bolt.eu/HYGW5L

Comment Fed up! (Score 5, Insightful) 35

by deltaromeo on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @08:38PM (#57827822) Attached to: Twitter Is Relaunching the Reverse-Chronological Feed

>> Over time, the company will learn your behavior. If you routinely switch to the latest tweets, Twitter will default you to them.

I'm fed up of these algorithms trying to guess what I want. Just implement a setting and I will decide!

Comment Why only 30 seconds? (Score 1) 56

by deltaromeo on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @09:56PM (#56696748) Attached to: Imgur Launches Video

Why not remove the 30-second limitation and start competing with YouTube? The timing would be perfect with so much discontent over YouTube.

Comment Re:5 bucks (Score 1) 348

by deltaromeo on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @04:21PM (#55638347) Attached to: Bitcoin Hits $10,000 Because Ceilings Are Just a Construct, Man

He was taking into account the transaction fees.

Comment Re:BankID (Score 1) 66

by deltaromeo on Sunday April 23, 2017 @04:41AM (#54285993) Attached to: Anbox Can Run Android Apps Natively On Linux (In A Container)

Many of these apps are designed for larger tablets not just for small screens. Many newer laptops are touch screen. I think this may be pretty useful.

Comment Re:Google Advertisement Here (Score 2) 45

by deltaromeo on Monday July 04, 2016 @07:51PM (#52445239) Attached to: Google Offers Free 4-Month Play Music Trial Subscription For July 4th

You can take up the trial and then cancel it 2 minutes later, you will still get the four free months.

Submission + - I finally caught them in the act! 5

Submitted by fustakrakich on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:21PM

fustakrakich writes: Slashdot is deleting comments!

I am asking you if you find this acceptable. To me it isn't. Indelible comments is Slashdot's only advantage it has over other what are now simple news aggregators. Deletions will mean the end of any of that. Better that the place shuts down completely. Please help save Slashdot. Don't let your comments be deleted. Please. Without Slashdot, there is no internet.

Submission + - Lithium-ion batteries that last a lifetime (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Socguy on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:19AM

Socguy writes: A typical Lithium-ion battery breaks down badly between 5000-7000 cycles. Researchers at the University of California may have discovered a simple way to build a Lithium battery that can withstand 100,000+ cycles.

This was a serendipitous discovery as the researcher was playing around with the battery and coated it in a thin gel layer. The researchers believe the gel plasticizes the metal oxide in the battery and gives it flexibility, preventing cracking.

Comment Where are the legal challenges and responses? (Score 2) 181

by deltaromeo on Saturday January 31, 2015 @10:26PM (#48949703) Attached to: The Pirate Bay Is Back Online, Properly

Where has the page that shows all the takedown notices and legal challenges (and their responses) gone?

Comment The last decent Windows version was Windows 2000 (Score 1) 640

by deltaromeo on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @07:59PM (#48807571) Attached to: Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7

NT4 and Windows 2000 were fairly decent. Windows XP was just a new skin on top of Windows 2000. After that it all went downhill.

Comment Re:The total storage capacity is 620 GB. (Score 1) 144

by deltaromeo on Monday September 22, 2014 @12:46PM (#47965787) Attached to: The Raid-Proof Hosting Technology Behind 'The Pirate Bay'

It does seem like a lot. In 2012 someone ran a scaper on tpb to grab all of their magnet links, it came in at under 100MB compressed. Of course this didn't include the comments or the .torrent files. https://torrentfreak.com/downl... The torrent is available at https://thepiratebay.se/torren...

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 51

by deltaromeo on Saturday October 26, 2013 @09:05PM (#45248477) Attached to: Do Is Done

Same here! I thought this was going to be about Gnome-Do which I stopped using a long time ago in favour of Synapse.

Comment Re:Around your ass... (Score 2) 190

by deltaromeo on Sunday November 04, 2012 @01:05PM (#41873147) Attached to: Google Wallet May End Up Inside Your Actual Wallet

I agree to some extent, however, in reality, with credit cards offering cashback and other rewards, it works out costing me less to use a credit card than it would to use cash. I hate that Visa and MC are getting rich from this but by protesting and stopping use of my card while everyone else carries on, I end up subsidising their discounts. The only way I can see to get around this would be for everyone to protest together or for all merchants to implement credit card surcharges.

Comment This year.. (Score 2) 87

by deltaromeo on Friday October 26, 2012 @11:08PM (#41786365) Attached to: Ubuntu Now Available On the Nexus 7

Surely this will be the year of Linux on the tablet.

Comment Re:Spend 'Em!!! (Score 0) 249

by deltaromeo on Thursday October 18, 2012 @11:00AM (#41692891) Attached to: Man Finds Roman Gold Coin Hoard Worth £100,000 With Metal Detector

The link you provided quotes £33.87 paid per gram of scrap gold. Current market rate is around £34.75 so it's not that bad at all.

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